I recently installed a Pro Tools HD system and Pro Tools 7 in my studio to replace the Digi002 we've been using for a few years. I'd be lying if I said this was an easy task, but I'd also be lying if I said it was any company's direct fault! The day began early. Kendra Wright, my studio manager, and I had earmarked this day for installing the new system, and of course it was the morning after I flew home from SXSW, where I'd maxed out my intake of Shiner Bock.
On the way to work I stopped by Store #1. This is a local place that carries sound and lighting equipment, and they've been nice enough to order cables and a custom mic splitter for me recently. They had just unlocked the doors and were a little slow getting rolling, but soon had me out the door with a pile of DB-25 to 1/4" cables which they'd ordered for me recently and had got in on time.
We have two Apogee Rosetta 800 A/D/A converters, one of which we'd been using as the Lighpipe input to the 002. I went and dropped in a new X-HD card from Apogee (which allows the Pro Tools HD cards to interface with the 800) into the old 800 but then discovered we needed a few of these short "Digilink" cables to attach gang the units together to receive and transmit Pro Tools information. Anyway, around 1 PM or so we'd accumulated a short list of items needed, such as this cable and some BNC cables for word clock.